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BreeAnn Allred

Founder of Aylara Pelvic Health, Pelvic Floor PT
Utah
BreeAnn Allred
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About BreeAnn Allred

Pelvic Floor TherapyPhysical TherapyWomen's HealthPostpartum RecoveryPatient Advocacy

BreeAnn Allred is a pelvic floor physical therapist with more than 20 years of experience and one of the earliest pelvic floor specialists in Utah. She founded Aylara Pelvic Health, a boutique, cash-based clinic built around individualized, whole-person care. Her work centers on conditions that are routinely misunderstood, ignored, or filed away as normal: urinary leakage, tailbone pain, painful periods, constipation, pelvic pain, and painful intimacy. Through treatment, education, and advocacy, she helps patients regain confidence, comfort, and control of their bodies.

Her path into pelvic health started in a spine clinic, treating women with low back pain during pregnancy and postpartum. Then she was pregnant with twins herself, around 2009 and 2010, and ran into her own issues despite her clinical background. That reframed the work. Her care process now follows four seasons of healing: winter for calming and rest, spring for mobility and returning strength, summer for strength toward a client's specific goal, and fall for prevention, with enough buffer that a small setback does not bring the injury back. She looks at feet, knees, hips, ribcage, and core, not just the symptom.

On The Daily Mastermind, BreeAnn sat down with George Wright III for a candid conversation about pelvic health and why common is not normal. She explained what the pelvic floor actually does, which symptoms are treatable rather than permanent, and how often clients tell her they wish they had known sooner. Stigma is the obstacle. Her remedy is conversation, with a girlfriend or a medical provider, because the female body has historically been understudied and dismissed, and most people already know when something is not right.

Key Insights

Key takeaways from BreeAnn

01
Common and normal are not the same thing.
Back pain in pregnancy, urinary leakage after childbirth, painful periods: all common, none normal. Each one signals a dysfunction somewhere that can be evaluated and treated rather than endured. Calling a symptom normal is what stops people from getting it looked at.
02
The pelvic floor is a central hub, not an isolated part.
It is a group of muscles across the bottom of the pelvis, shaped like a bowl or a hammock. It handles bowel, bladder, and sexual function, manages pressure inside the body, and transfers force from one leg to the other, which is why the pain often shows up elsewhere.
03
Any unwanted leakage of urine is incontinence.
It is not the price of motherhood. In BreeAnn's framing, leakage usually means the pelvic floor was never rehabbed appropriately. Many women, including her own mother, accept it for years because nobody told them it was something that could be treated.
04
Prepare the body before the transition, not after the breakdown.
She compares it to routine car maintenance: your car gets serviced on a schedule, so catch problems in your body before they start. That means getting ready ahead of a pregnancy or another big change, and examining what else is feeding the dysfunction.
05
Exhale with the effort instead of holding your breath.
One practical habit for protecting the pelvic floor during exertion. When a movement or a lift feels hard, breathe out through it rather than bracing and holding. Pair it with the basics she recommends: fiber from fruits and vegetables, water, and consistent hydration.